New Jersey State Library

Jackson Pearce

"The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page." - Rachel Ander

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." - George RR Martin Atlantic City Free Public Library

The next Tabletop Tuesday is May 24th - Have some fun and de-stress by playing board games!

Check out this #‎TBT#Jerseyana photo of the library committee of Seven-Room School in Burlington.

“ We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too.” 

Your public library newsletter is one of your most valuable marketing assets, helping you to connect regularly with friends of the library. But if your open rate seems to have stalled or dropped, it may be time to shake up the content and format.

Here are four TED Talks that you can use to help explain the magic of your public library.

1:00pm: Shotgun Start (scramble)

http://www.njstatelib.org/introduction-to-heinonline-class-follow-up/ Did you ever want to know if New Jersey ever outlawed Witchcraft?[1] Or why King Henry VIII was able to dress so much better than his subjects?[2] If you had attended the “Introduction to HeinOnline” class given on March 10, 2016, at the New Jersey State Library as part of its LunchTime Learning Program, you could have found out. 

It's National Library Week! Visit your public, academic, or school library to celebrate! #LibrariesTransform #NLW16 http://thndr.me/BUJmFf

February 9 @ 12PM in the NJSL, Technical Training Lab, Level 5

Ray Bradbury